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So instead of needing Fibre cable and 2 SFP connectors (1 on each end) you can buy DAC Cables that are just all copper construction and have SFP style ends on them. They are great for runs that are 5m or less to still get full speeds. I use two 5m DAC cables to connect my gaming PC and Unraid server at 10 Gig to my Unifi switch all via SFP+ ports. On switches that support 10 Gig over RJ-45 connectors, they generate a lot of heat inside the switch. When using SFP connectors (either fibre transceivers or DAC cables) all the media conversion is handled in the SFP connector and also a chunk of heat there. DAC cables are typically much more universal and you don't have to be as careful with buying vendor specific Fibre Transceiver SFP+ connectors. My setup using a MC3309124-006 cable

Depending on the lengths, you could use DAC (Direct Attach Copper) cables instead that have SFP+ connectors on each end, that's what I'm using for my network right now instead of Fibre Transceivers.

Sorry for the late reply, I'll stick it in the next pool since it will be a large competition *hint hint* so that works.

My 5800x behaves pretty hot as well, with PBO set to +200 MHz, it will auto-OC to 5.050 GHz on certain cores during Folding@Home or video encoding and his 85C under water-cooling as well. The "problem", if you want to call it a problem, is that stock 5000 series parts are just pushed at a higher than expected voltage to his those boost targets if you have the cooling and power available. It makes for some really easy high clocks at the cost of power, heat and a little bit of lifetime. You could play with the voltage and clock settings in BIOS or Ryzen Master to get some better voltage levels, or wait for @1usmus to release Clock Tuner 2.0 RC3 on February 3rd to find some better voltage levels and therefore better temps. https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/clocktuner-for-ryzen-to-be-overhauled-(ctr-2-0).html

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I will be doing the draw later today, sorry for the delay everyone.

Congrats on scoring a 5900x. Most Switches will support any speed up to what they are rated at. So most Consumer Switches over the last almost decade are Gigabit (1 gbps) switches, but support Ethernet (10 mbps) and Fast Ethernet (100 mbps) no flawlessly. Now we are starting to see multi-gig consumer switches that support 2.5 gbps and 5 gbps on top of those previous speeds all using copper. Copper Ethernet through your typical 8-pin RJ-45 port can reach 10 gbps in some cases, mostly in data center with short runs, but normally when you want 10 gbps or higher (25, 40, 100 gbps) you use Fibre or DAC cables using SFP+ ports on switches.

10 Gig not cheap, I went with the Unifi SW-48 to get two 10 Gig SFP ports to connect my main PC and my NAS then have 48 ports to do the rest of my eventual house with no issues. I just picked up some Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards off eBay that came with 5m DAC cables since I didn't need longer than that. I thought about the 16 XG like you got, but I only had the two devices I want on 10 Gig for now and figured I can always just expand later with some little Microtik 10 Gig Switches or a used 16 XG.

Let's go hard, gotta lot of distance to make up with OCN.

I'm currently looking at storage upgrades for mine, at this point new Threadripper also looking mighty fine...

Thanks as well, added to OP. I also removed the estimated PPD numbers since those can change anyway with units and it's free PPD for the winner anyway.

Source: https://videocardz.com/press-release/ultra-high-speed-hdmi-2-1-cables-now-available I'm happy to see HDMI making progress, but it just seems so slow and barely keeping up with graphics accelerators and display technology. This generation did bring a bump from 18 Gbps to 48 Gbps which is pretty nice to support 4K 120 Hz and 8K 120 Hz, but also needs a new cable called "Ultra High Speed" (referred to as 48G during development). This does put HDMI 2.1 ahead of DP 1.4, but still well behind DP 2.0. We are seeing some increased testing though which is nice:

Thanks mate, added that to the OP as well.

Thanks mate, added to the first post.

Speaking of which:

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Pretty much yeah, it lets you have a bunch of inputs, including some virtual ones and then some virtual outputs and your hardware outputs and you can map the inputs to any outputs, apply effects, single out audio from certain applications for recording/streaming.

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Well if the lockdown persists in to the new year for a good while, I was thinking of making some extensions with built-in voltage monitoring to a Arduino.

Hmm, so software reporting could just be wonky, or the voltage measuring chips and sense resistors are not playing nicely with high current draw parts and their accuracy is off.

You're not last ?

If you have a spare PCIe or EPS or Molex connector, you can just use that to test voltage from the PSU. That is assuming you have a single rail 12V supply, or manages to find the same one the GPU is on.

Not a bad little Xmas present at all. I replaced the stock head lights bulbs in my 2012 Cruze as an early Xmas present, not that I'll be driving anywhere with a COVID lock-down though...

Woohoo